Pakistani government hires first transgender employee
The Pakistani federal government counts a transgender employee among its work force for the first time.
Pakistani government hires first transgender employee Read more
The Pakistani federal government counts a transgender employee among its work force for the first time.
Pakistani government hires first transgender employee Read more
In a groundbreaking victory for gay rights, India’s Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down one of the world’s oldest bans on consensual gay sex.
India’s gay sex ban is struck down Read more
India’s energy minister R K Singh has flagged a massive solar tender of 100GW — by far the biggest in the world, as the fastest growing energy consumer turns increasingly to renewables to satisfy its enormous needs.
India energy minister flags massive 100GW solar tender – by far the largest ever Read more
India’s power and renewable energy minister announced that India was increasing its 2022 target by 52 GW up to 227 GW.
India increases its 2022 renewable energy target by 28% Read more
When a traditional healer burned hot clay into the chest of two-year-old Kushbu Lal, she died. Now moves are afoot to criminalize a practice that continues to cost lives.
India aims to criminalize witch doctor practice of branding sick children with hot irons Read more
The pledge is the most ambitious yet of the global actions to combat plastic pollution that are taking place in 60 nations around the world.
India will abolish all single-use plastic by 2022, vows Narendra Modi Read more
India’s federal government recently gave the go-ahead for development of the country’s largest solar power park in the state of Gujarat.
India approves massive new 5,000 megawatt solar farm Read more
Renewable energy prices in India are crashing, leaving coal-based power plants in the country financially unviable in their wake.
Cheap renewable energy is killing India’s coal-based power plants Read more
The country becomes the first in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to defeat the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.
Nepal eliminates trachoma as a public health problem Read more
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act allows people to choose their gender and to have that identity recognized on official documents, including national IDs, passports and driver’s licenses.
Pakistan passes historic transgender rights bill Read more